This challenge, viz. the confrontation with the programming task, is so unique that this novel experience can teach us a lot about ourselves. It should deepen our understanding of the processes of design and creation, it should give us better control over the task of organizing our thoughts. If it did not do so, to my taste we should no deserve the computer at all! It has allready taught us a few lessons, and the one I have chosen to stress in this talk is the following. We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremenduous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsec limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers. -- E. W. Dijkstra, The humble programmer

Photography is painting with light. -- Eric Hamilton

No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -- Eric S. Raymond, How to become a hacker

The reason to do animation is caricature. Good caricature picks out the essense of the statement and removes everything else. It's not simply about reproducing reality; It's about bumping it up. -- Brad Bird, writer and director, The Incredibles

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed. -- George Burns

No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale. -- 37 Signal, Getting real

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ~Winston Churchill

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absense of fear. ~Mark Twain

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain